Housewives tend to put many ingredients into fried rice. but the result is not always as tasty as that which a good restaurant with an eye to economy and greater skill can serve. Try this for minimum ingredients:

Ingredients

7 to 8 cups cooked. cold rice

6 large Chinese sausages

1 tablespoon (or to taste) salt

5 tablespoons oil

2 to 3 tablespoons soy sauce

5 eggs

3/4 teaspoon black pepper

2 onions. peeled and sliced

How to cook

Put rice in basin. break up. and put in salt. soy sauce. and 1/2 of pepper. Mix with fingers till thoroughly homogenized. Put whole sausages into a pan with 4 tablespoons water. Cover and cook till water is absorbed. Cut sausages in diagonal slices 1/8 inch thick. fry in a trace of oil till fragrant. Drain and set aside. Beat eggs with large pinches salt and pepper. Pour out excess oil from sausage pan leaving just enough for omelets. Fry eggs. drain out as omelets. cut into short strips.

Add rest of oil to pan. heat. put in sliced onions. and before they brown. put in mixed rice. keeping fire very hot and tossing. Keep on at spitting heat till all parts get frying treatment well. Mix into the pan the fried sausages and egg and keep tossing. Add rest of pepper. correct for salt. and serve at once. with: Onion and lime relish Clear pork broth Hot Tea.